This tutorial is written to facilitate beginners, I assume that you are new to Android Development and are eager to make Valuable apps.

Before entering into Development Phase, the most important question is: What IDE (Integrated Development Environment) should we chose or start with?

There are several IDE’s to choose from, you can even start developing for Android with any basic Text Editor.

Editors such as IntelliJ, Visual studio and Net beans are useful, or you can use Phone gap Strategy (Building applications using Web Languages). But I would recommend using “Eclipse SDK (Software Development Kit)” because it is an open source multi-language platform that can be used with various plugins.

Note: Tutorials for this series of Android Developments will be done on Windows OS.

Configuring SDK and Running Emulator for the First Time

Integrating Android SDK Into Eclipse

1) After you have installed the SDK package from the Google developer’s site (http://developers.android.com/), open up your folder where you installed your Android SDK file (it is an archive file, .zip file). Unzip the files in a folder of your choice.

For instance, I downloaded and unzipped the files in my directory E:\ANDROID SDK\Android as shown below.

Disclaimer

Disclaimer: we are not affiliated with the device manufacturers or phone carriers we mention in any way, all suggestions are based on our own experience and research, you may use our advice at your own discretion.